Wire coat and hat hook



(No Model.)

F. TAYLOR.

WIRE COAT AND HAT HOOK.

'No. 365,882. Patented July 6,1887.

WI'ILFIEEEEE- z i l UNITED STATES PATENT Grimes.

FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

WIRE COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,882, dated July 5,.1887.

Application filed June 12, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TAYLOR, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county ofMiddlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a cer tainnew and useful Improvement in Wire Coat and Hat Hooks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to wire coat and hat hooks; and it consists in thehook hereinafter described and claimed. 7 V i The accompanying drawingis an isometric view of my invention.

The hook herein described is similar to that shown in anotherapplication filed by me April 18, 1884, and now pending, but differsfrom that hook, as hereinafter described.

Ais a hook formed ofasingle wire, W, doubled sidewise in one directionupon itself at the top of the hook, the strands w w thus formed beingcurved, as shown, to form a hat-hook, a, and running nearly or quiteparallel with each other from a slight distance below the top of thehook to a little below the middle of said hook. The wire W is alsodoubled sidewise in the opposite direction upon itself at the bottom ofthe hook, the strands w 10 being .curved, as shown, to forma coat-hook,a, and

running nearly or quite parallel with each other from a slight distancefrom the free end of the hook. The free ends of the hooks a a arepreferably slightly spread to prevent their piercing or marking clothesor other articles suspended thereon. In so far the hook is the'saine asthatshown in the pending application above referred to. The ends of thewire are then bent across the front of the hook, the end of the lowerstrand being carried above the end of theuppenstrand. The extreme ends ww of the wire are then bent backward Serial No. 168,462. (No model.)

at right angles to the part of the hook which is usually attached to avertical wall and the ends of the wire are pointed to enable them to bedriven into a wall or cleat.

By the construction above described the strands of wire are boundtogether and prevented from spreading apart. This construction bringsone of the attachingpoints at each side of the hook. To prevent the hookfrom appearing bent sidewise at the middle, I place the point whichproceeds from the upper hook a little higher than the other point andmake a double bend or offset in the long strand, which has the effect ofbringing the lower short strand in line with the part of the long strandwhich lies above the offset and the upper short strand in line with thepart of the long strand which comes below the offset.

I claim as my iuvention-.

1. A duplex hook formed of a single wire doubled upon itself throughoutits entire length sidewise, in opposite directions, and curved to form ahat-hook at one end anda coat-hook at the other end, and having its freeends bent across the front of the hook and then bent backward to formattaching-points, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A duplex hook formed of a single wire doubled upon itself throughoutits entire length, and curved to form a hat-hook at one end and acoat-hook at the other end, the free ends of said wire being carriedpast each other and bent across the front of the hook in oppositedirections, one above the other, and then bent backward to form attaching-points, as and for the purpose specified.

FREDERICK TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. Moonn,

KIRKLEY HYDE.

